This is Joe Hood, co-administrator of the Hood DNA Project. I need your e-mail to post as a contact person for your lineage. I have posted your lineage on the Patriarch page. If you don't have a male representative in the Hood DNA Project, please consider having a male representative of your Hood lineage submit a sample for testing so that your Hood family will be represented in the project!

Your lineage of William Hood is posted, as are the lineages of Delores Young (Ausborn Hood) and Alan Hood (James Wesley Hood)? If Delores or Alan read this reply, I need you to give me your e-mail addresses, so that those with your lineage can contact you to share information.

Your lineage is posted. If you are still in touch with any of your male Hood cousins or maternal Hood uncles, please encourage them to participate in the Hood DNA Project. If you can prove your descent from Tunis Hood by hard documentation (copies of wills, marriage certificates, etc., it is my understanding that interested parties will pay the cost of the DNA test for a male descendant of Tunis Hood. This is also true for the descendants of Lucas Hood, another descendant of Jasper Hoed. We look forward to hearing from you!

Joseph, with regard to proof of ancestors, proof lies in the book by Dellmann O. Hood entitled The Tunis hood Family: Its Lineage and Traditions. I am listed in that book on page 427. If that book constitutes proof, there it is for me. Of course, I have other records such as birth certificates, death certificates, bible entries, etc., back through my grandfather's family but not much further. I also have some Revolutionary War documents relating to Reuben Hood. Sam Gambrell

Thanks very much for the information associated with the documentation of your Tunis Hood/Jasper Hood lineage. We encourage everyone who posts to document their lineage with hard evidence as much as possible. In uncovering our Hood heritage, it is extremely important that that we have as much objective evidence as possible to use in conjunction with the new information and relationships being revealed by the DNA tests.

Your lineage is posted. (We only post through the generations that include Hoods.) In answer to your query regarding your brother: Y-DNA is transmitted from father to son. Since Catherine Hood was your Hood ancestor, she did not pass the Hood Y-DNA on. In order to determine which Hood line you are related to, you would have to determine the Y-DNA results of a male Hood descendant of James Hood (b. c1797).